Physico-chemical characterization of chitosans varying in degree of acetylation

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 205-216

  Berth, Gisela ^a,b   Dautzenberg, Herbert ^b   Peter, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Macromolecular characterization; Mark Houwink equation; Static light scattering; Wormlike chain model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032114834     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8617(98)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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